The candidacy of the new US Ambassador to Turkmenistan has been sent to the Senate for approval
The US Senate will consider nominations for various positions in the US presidential administration. Among the candidates listed at the January 11 briefing is Elizabeth Rood, a career Foreign Service officer in the Envoy-Counsel class, nominated for the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Turkmenistan.
Rood was named as a candidate for the post of US Ambassador to Turkmenistan in August 2022, when US President Joe Biden announced his intention to appoint a number of individuals to lead his administration.
American ambassadors are appointed by the White House administration, and their candidacies are confirmed by the US Senate.
Elizabeth Rood is currently the US Chargé d'Affaires in Russia. Previously, she served as Faculty Advisor at the U.S. Army War College, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, most of the time as Chargé d'Affaires.
She also served as Political Affairs Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, directed the Office of Caucasus and Regional Conflicts in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, served as a Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Peshawar, Pakistan, and served as a State Department representative on the Provincial Reconstruction Team at southeast Afghanistan, deputy US special negotiator for the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria.
Elizabeth Rood holds a Master's degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts degree and speaks French, Russian, German, Pashto, Dari and Georgian.
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